Quotes About Plato

If you're intelligent, you find a few sensible men much more frightening than a senseless crowd. - Agathon to Socrates

It is not Love absolutely that is good or praiseworthy, but only that Love which impels meant to love aright.

Éste es en general el error de la juventud: contentarse con semiverdades y creer conocer lo que no conoce; sobre todo, éste era el de la juventud ateniense en la época de Sócrates y de Platón, viciada como estaba por los sofistas.

But then, I said, speaking the truth and paying your debts is not a correct definition of justice. Quite correct, Socrates, if Simonides is to be believed, said Polemarchus interposing. I

For the body which is moved from without is soulless; but that which is moved from within has a soul... (Tr. Jowett)

Porque, en efecto, la injusticia produce sediciones, ¡oh, Trasímaco!, y odios y luchas de unos contra otros, mientras que la justicia trae concordia y amistad; ¿no es así?

Because to the mortal creature, generation is a sort of eternity and immortality,' she replied; 'and if, as has been already admitted, love is of the everlasting possession of the good, all men will necessarily desire immortality together with good: Wherefore love is of immortality.

Querido Critão! Quão precioso o teu ardor, se alguma retidão o acompanhasse!

This early dialogue features the charismatic young politician Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates.

Melito representa los poetas, Anito los políticos y artistas y Licon los oradores.

For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your [b]body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."13

I, on the other hand, have a convincing witness that I speak the truth, my poverty.

Then I showed again, not in words but in action, that, if it were not rather vulgar to [d]say so, death is something I couldn't care less about, but that my whole concern is not to do anything unjust or impious.

in a family there may be several brothers, and the bad may be a majority; and when the bad majority conquer the good minority, the family are worse than themselves.

You may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened when you are caught napping; and you may think that if you were to strike me dead as you easily might, then you would sleep on for the remainder of your lives, unless God in his care of you gives you another gadfly.

When ideas are manipulated for personal ends, for class or group interests, the name for this is sophistry.

What being is there that does not desire happiness? Well then, since all of us desire happiness, how can we be happy? – that is the next question.

You were the Morning Star among the living. In death, O Evening Star, you light the dead.

ha habido razón para decir que hay ciertas opiniones que debemos respetar y otras que debemos despreciar

he really meant to say that justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt.

Bo dobrze i pi?knie zrobiona rzecz dobr? si? staje; niedobrze zrobiona jest z??. Tak wi?c i kochanie, i Eros nie ka?dy jest pi?kny i uwielbienia wart, lecz ten tylko, co pi?kny rozp?omienia ?ar.

because if a human institution gets off to a good and careful start, there is a sort of divine guarantee that it will prosper.

Love is a serious mental illness.

but when the divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly, and to him who had an eye to see grew visibly debased, for they were losing the fairest of their precious gifts; but to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were full of avarice and unrighteous power.